It’s time for the gloves to come off Mr. President

With the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the President has an opportunity to do something with the justice department. The President needs to appoint someone who believes strongly in the foreign surveillance program, he needs to appoint someone who will go into the justice department, not with a new tone, but someone that will clean house of the endless career bureaucrats that been undermining the administration.

 

Chuck Schumer was quoted as saying that democrats “will not obstruct or impede a nominee who we are confident will put the rule of law above political considerations.” Translation: It’s ok for democrats to put political considerations above the rule of law when a democrat is in the white house but republicans have do what democrats think is right. BULL@$%&. It’s time for President Bush to nominate someone tough, someone strong, someone who will investigate the endless leaks for classified information, someone who will investigate corruption in congress, Diane Feinstein anyone. I am tired of this loser band of has been democrats weak spineless republicans like Arlen Specter determining the agenda and what give them the power to say what’s right or wrong!

A High Note to End the Week On

This has been a week of highs and lows for the Fred Thompson camp. Early in the week, he recieved negative reviews for his speech to the VFW. It was a weak performance, and a stale speech, where he came across as “distracted.”

Saturday, however, was another story. Thompson recieved high marks for his speech at the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, from the AP, the local press, and those in attendence.

From the AP:

Thompson, a former Tennessee senator and an actor known for his role as a district attorney on NBC’s “Law & Order,” was the third and final GOP hopeful to speak at the conference. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke Friday.
He received a more rousing reception when he was introduced to speak than Romney and Huckabee got, with many in the crowd of 500 or so whooping and hollering and shouting, “Fred, Fred, Fred.” Unlike the stiff character he plays on TV, Thompson was casual as he spoke. He warmed up the crowd with a few jokes, saying that while he was a senator he could recall that every once and awhile, a member of Congress would slip up by “actually spending their own money.”
He spoke mostly in general terms on serious matters, saying that one of the most pressing challenges facing America was national security and the terrorist threat from Islamic radicals. Not enough people take the threat seriously, he said.
“Our country is in danger and it’s going to be in danger for a long time to come,” he said. “We have got to be more united and more committed than ever before.”
He said government spending was out of control, and people had little faith in government solving problems in areas such as energy, education and health care.
“We probably have more cynicism toward our leadership than in a long time,” he said. “How do people follow when people don’t have any confidence in what is said and who is saying it?”
Jean Reed of Greensburg said she has been unsure who she would support, but that Thompson’s appearance and speech probably won her over.
“I think he would make a great candidate,” she said. “He seemed to be very personable, he seemed to be caring, he seemed to know what he believed.”
Murray Winn of Mishawaka said he was still undecided, but hoped Thompson would get into the race soon. “I think it will energize the party if he does,” he said.
Thompson is expected to announce his bid early next month, saying Saturday that he will “certainly be making a statement within short order.”

From the Indiana Star:

“To have leadership, you have to have people willing to follow,” he said, but too many people “don’t have any confidence in what’s being said or who’s saying it. We can’t go down that road forever.”
For voters like Mike and Maggie Campbell, Greenwood,, the conference gave them their first real chance to see the candidates up close.
Mike Campbell, 55, said he liked what Huckabee and Romney had to say, but was leaning toward Thompson. Standing in front of a table filled with stickers, buttons and posters touting Thompson, they said they weren’t bothered by his undeclared status.
All three of the politicians are saying basically the same thing, the couple said.
What they wanted to know was which one could win. The Campbells said Thompson seems to have the same touch former President Ronald Reagan had as a communicator.
After Thompson’s speech, Maggie Campbell uttered an enthusiastic “yes” when asked if she liked Thompson’s speech.
Mike Campbell added that he saw all three candidates, and Thompson was the only one to walk through the crowd and shake hands with many people.
“His speech wasn’t as specific as some of the others, but he also hasn’t announced yet,” Campbell said. “I liked what I heard.”

From the penraker:

At first, he seemed too laconic. But the more he spoke, the more he grew on you. He is a good communicator, probably the best Reagan-like communicator we have seen in years. The media will not understand him. They would like to call him dumb, but since he is a lawyer and a Senator they cannot. So they will call him lazy or something similar…

Alerted is much better. It goes deeper and produces a more lasting commitment. Any salesman can learn how to energize a crowd. But to be taken seriously by a crowd, and to make them think - that is rare.

He was being serious. He was not rah-rahing. Understand this: people hate rah-rahing. Maybe a few nuts at the conventions like it, but normal people are disgusted by it. For the first time in many years, we saw someone who is absolutely serious about things and is not willing to become an automaton for a year in order to get into office.

That is a huge advantage, an incalculable advantage. It means he is trying to get something done, rather than become something.

Thompson was extraordinary at the one thing the every politician strives for, but few are able to achieve: make a real connection with average Americans. He speaks their language. He is going to be formidable.

All in all, I was personally very pleased with his speech last night (especially after I got to see the whole thing- CSPAN!). Thompson didn’t stand at the podium and deliver punch lines. He walked across the stage with a clipped on microphone, and spoke in an authoritave manner from the heart. That is what connects Fred to his audience.

Not a bad week at all. And just announced, MN House Minority Leader Marty Seifert will serve as Thompson’s guide through the MN State Fair on Monday morning.

Tommy Oliver
race42008.com

Poll numbers not good for Rudy and Romney

I get blasted by Romney supporters whenever I write anything negative about Romney and I am certain this will be no different. In watching Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll some things are becoming clear, at least to me. Rudy has dropped in the last few days and while most people looking at the numbers can see that, what isn’t showing up is where those voters are going. Fred Thompson has been consistent at 21%-23%, Romney has been consistent at 13%-14%, and McCain has seen a bump lately that puts him at 13%-14%. Perhaps the undecided is growing.

The news doesn’t get better for Romney; I know he’s leading in Iowa and New Hampshire, big deal he should be leading in those states. The point is he’s losing ground in South Carolina where he trails Rudy, Fred, and McCain in most every poll. In Florida Romney is running 3^rd or 4^th in most polls, again staring up at Rudy, Fred, and McCain depending on the poll. In California, Rudy has a huge lead in most polls but Romney is running 2^nd in some places 3^rd in others. In Michigan the latest poll has Fred out front and Romney running 5^th behind the usual group but in addition he is behind Gingrich.

So looking at the current numbers it’s clear that Rudy is stagnant or dropping in the national numbers but has some big leads in some big states. Romney shows no movement nationally, he has good leads in two early states but their delegate counts are small and with many of the other states moving up within a couple of weeks of Iowa & NH that may not be enough. Fred has been consistent in the national polls, but is making strides in many of the state polls, especially in South Carolina and Florida. McCain in spite of himself some say, has managed to hang in there and is not getting out of this race before the end of September.

Romney has been getting by with his fundraising advantage but it’s not translating to leading polling numbers. No one knows what the fundraising numbers will look like for this quarter but several believe that they will be off significantly. Can Romney continue to get by with money, will the money start drying up without some significant progress in the polls? Unlike the democrats GOP voters have candidates that offer clear differences; all the democrats have is the fifty year old playbook of fear. The GOP candidate that successfully shows he is conservative, that he believes in the greatness of America, that person will be the next President.

When the experts are not experts anymore

You can tell that it is nearing the end of the month because we get the obligatory story that has good economic news and how the “experts” were surprised. I know others have talked about it a great deal but I would like to know when do we decide that these aren’t experts and get someone that actually knows what they are talking about.

The MSM is so hung up on dragging down an otherwise great economy that they will stop at nothing to try and present good news as bad. This happens in other areas as well, look at Iraq, the experts there said that you can never have democracy there. They believe that some people apparently don’t deserve freedom. The same was said about Afghanistan, of course reality and history tell us different. Both countries now have young democracies, their populations vote in greater numbers than our own. This would be great if it were unprecedented but it’s not, as President Bush pointed out in St. Louis the other day, similar experts said the same thing about Japan after WWII. We know now that they were wrong, many said that Germany couldn’t be a unified democracy either, and while it took another 40+ years to destroy the Soviet Union, Germany has achieved what was thought to be impossible.

So the next time you watch the news and they put up some “expert” to discuss whatever the topic of disaster is at that moment remember that these experts are wrong most of the time.

Partial Socialism a no go for California

It appears that partial socialism is a non starter for California’s governor. He will apparently accept nothing less than complete stalinistic socialism when it comes to healthcare in California. The Governator, determined to drive every last private business out of the once golden state, said he would veto proposed legislation that would require those evil businesses to contribute 7.5% of their payroll to healthcare. Nope this is not good enough for Moscow by the ocean; the Governator wants 4% from hospitals, 2% from doctors, and 4% from businesses. If that wasn’t bad enough he wants to mandate that every Californian have healthcare approved by the state.

 

Do we really need any more examples of why we should stop electing RINO’s? Is this what we can expect on a national level from the RINO’s running for President, a lite version of Hillarycare? Sometimes one has to wonder, is it better to get socialism all at once so that it can fail and then move on with freedom, or do we reject pure socialists like Hillary, Obama, Edwards, etc, and work to defeat RINO’s who suggest we do incremental socialism?

Too much success going on in Iraq

Let’s see we have reduced violence, we have Iraqi’s making real progress on security in their country, and the troop surge is working. This is all good news for the Iraqi’s, its good news for the President, its good news for the region as a whole. So what’s the downside you may ask? Well if all that is good news then that’s bad news for Democrats, more importantly its bad news for the antiwar democrats running for President. So with all the success in Iraq it stands to reason that Democrats have to find some way to make a negative out of all this positive news. Enter the wannabe HRH Hillary Clinton and the report by the AP (via FoxNews) that continues to show why we can’t trust Democrats with the security of our country, or the security of Iraq for that matter.

Hillary believes that the Iraqi parliament should replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a “less divisive and more unifying figure”. The same could definitely be said of the people of New York as their choice for Senator, the same could be said for the Democratic Party about their presumptive nominee for President. Why would we expect the Democratic Party to listen to the people of this country, there obviously too busy telling the rest of the world how to run their countries. I never knew it was possible to be so arrogant and ignorant at the same time but then Clinton Machine rises to new lows with each passing day.

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